Drunken Omelette

“Yeah, when I hear the word ‘DING!’ now it sends me in a psychotic rage with my baseball bat. But Coach Wells says that’s OK for Super-Regionals … so whatever …”

The Birmingham News has a nice, brief interview with Ross Wilson up on the Bama blog today.

Oh, Ross Wilson? Not from Alabama? Don’t know the name?

“DING? … DING!”

Well, you may remember it accompanied with “Who f@)! are you throwing to …?” and America’s favorite coaching motivator — screaming the word “DING!” as loud as possible at a 16-year-old boy.

That’s right, the Two-A-Days‘ boy is now at Alabama … playing baseball. Making him the second short, Caucasian athlete Rush Propst didn’t teach how to play quarterback and sent to Tuscaloosa.

Among some of the interesting responses:

You don’t really have time to miss (football). When you’re watching the game, you’d like to be out there, but the day-to-day grind of football is definitely something that I don’t miss. I enjoy baseball practice every day. Football practice was not something I enjoyed day-in and day-out. …

It was an experience (being on Two-A-Days). A lot of people liked it more than I did. It was definitely an experience most people don’t have. I’m glad for it to be over with, glad to be just focusing on baseball now.

Glad to hear it also made him want to not play/watch/mutilate football, too.

Also interesting was to read was his response about his coach getting fired in connection to Alabama’s biggest high school grade-changing/ethics/secret lovechild scandal:

Coach Propst was good to me, I think he was good to the Hoover program. I’m sorry to see the way the situation was handled, definitely. But I think he’s going to be successful the next place he goes to. He was good to me and my family.

Not sure if we agree with that “good to me and my family” thing considering, well, his football trainwreck of a brother.

That said, we did enjoy Ian Rapraprapraparapraport’s linkage to the announce of Rush Propst’s new job at an unexpecting South Georgia high school:

When you talk about Valdosta, Lowndes, Colquitt County, Northside, Warner Robins, they know where that is. That’s what excites me about this job — the traditions of these South Georgia towns.

We’re sorry, Coach Propst, that’s a negative on the correct coachspeak and mainly speaks to you probably not knowing where the hell you are or where you’re going — not that we blame you.

The correct response was “DING.”

Just “DING.”